i've been meaning to write to you again / 63.4 miles Ray Newby do you remember? when we’d turn our shoes red stomping on those ants outside our elementary school? the teacher would yell until her face was fiery, you murderous boys and come inside now, but we’d just laugh and dance in the disaster. do you remember? you pulled me out of the pool four years later. i went under, kicking, my broken foot trapped under the pool ladder that he dropped. the party went dead silent but you’re the only one who dived in. do you remember? when i told you what he did after the football game you went to his house, stabbed him in the chest with a high-heeled shoe, do
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